180 Assembly Proceedings, November 16-December 23, 1773.

Liber R. G.
1773

Province without a Permit for so doing they will forthwith make
Information and a particular Discovery thereof to the next Justice
of the Peace of the County where such Tobacco shall be And all

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Sheriffs and Under Sheriffs respectively who shall after the first
day of January next be appointed or sworn into the said Offices
shall at the Time of their being sworn take the same Oath and

[Penalty.]

obtain a Certificate thereof and every such Officer failing so to do
shall forfeit two thousand Pounds of Tobacco and every Inspector
shall take the same Oath or Affirmation if a Quaker before some
Magistrate of the County where he resides before he enters on the
Execution of his Office under the like Penalty

[Justices to
issue War-
rants for
searching
suspected
Vessels.]

And be it further enacted that any Justice of the Peace of any
County near the Place where any Ship or other Vessel shall ride
upon Application to him made by any Person suspecting any Tobacco
to be laden on Board such Ship or other Vessel contrary to the
Direction of this Act such Justice shall and he is hereby impowered
and required to Issue his Warrant directed to the Sheriff or any
Constable of his County and the Sheriff or Constable shall have
full Power and Authority and he is hereby required to enter and
go on Board such Ship or other Vessel to search for and seize such
Tobacco and the same being seized shall be brought on Shore and
Carried before the same or any other Justice who shall Cause the
same to be immediately weighed and if Trashy or bad immediately
burnt if good Carried to the Inspecting House there to be inspected
and sold for the Use of the County and if any Master or Skipper

[Penalty on
resisting.]

of any Ship or Vessel or any other Person whatsoever shall resist
the Officer in the Execution of any such Warrant every Master or
Skipper so offending shall forfeit and pay eight thousand Pound
of Tobacco and every other Person so offending shall forfeit and
pay three thousand two hundred Pounds of Tobacco

[County
Clerks duty
in assisting
Magis-
trates.]

And be it enacted that the Clerk of each County within this Prov-
ince shall provide a well bound or stiched Book and record therein
all the Proceedings of the Justices relating to this Act And that it
be the Duty of the Clerk of the County Court for the Time being
to attend that on all Occasions relating to this Act in their respective
Courts and at their Meetings at the Court House and that he be quali-
fied by Oath before some Magistrate to keep fair and just Entrys of
the Proceedings of the said Justices and do all other necessary Ser-
vices in Relation to this Act that shall be required by him by the

[Their
salary.]

Justices aforesaid for all which Services he shall annually be allowed
out of the Profits arising by Virtue of this Act a Sum not exceeding
twelve hundred Pounds of Tobacco.

[Inspectors
not doing
their Duty,
how to be
punished.]

and for the better detecting of Inspectors who shall not do their
Duty be it enacted that the Justices of the County Court shall hear
and determine all Complaints against them and if they shall find
them deficient in their Duty they shall remove any such Inspector